The Forgotten Issue Behind America’s Enduring Assist for Israel: 78 Million Evangelicals
ANALYSIS
Tucker Carlson, America’s foremost right-wing broadcaster, sat down this week with Nick Fuentes — the self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and serial antisemite — for a protracted, meandering interview. The 2 sparred over race, gender, tradition, and masculinity. However on one level, they have been in excellent settlement: Christian help for Israel is a travesty.
“How do you clarify individuals like Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and John Bolton?” Carlson requested, shaking his head. “I’ve recognized all of them… I’ve seen them be seized by this mind virus, and so they’re not Jewish.” Then got here the road that despatched shockwaves via the evangelical world:
“As a result of it is Christian heresy, and I am offended by that as a Christian.”
It was a placing assertion — dismissing tens of thousands and thousands of American Christians for believing within the Bible’s promise of the Land of Israel to the Jewish individuals.
And but, in that very same second, Carlson inadvertently answered some of the essential political questions of the fashionable Western world — why have the U.Ok., Europe, Canada, and Australia turned so sharply in opposition to Israel, whereas the USA stays, by far, Israel’s strongest ally?
The reality is easy — and statistical: all these different international locations haven’t got tens of thousands and thousands of Evangelical Christians, and America does. In accordance with a 2025 Pew Analysis Middle research, there are roughly 78 million Evangelical Christians in the USA, and most of them see the fashionable State of Israel because the dwelling achievement of biblical prophecy — the continuation of God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and His promise via the prophets to revive Israel to the Jewish individuals.
Evangelical Christian help for Israel is deeply rooted of their theology and id. In Britain, Western Europe, Canada, and Australia, no comparable group offsets rising hostility to Israel. With Christianity fading, secular and Muslim anti-Israel actions dominate.
The result’s a cultural panorama by which the anti-Israel facet is loud, assured, and rising, whereas the pro-Israel voice is lowered to a whisper. Jewish communities, small and shrinking, cannot probably compete. Britain’s Jews are 0.5% of the inhabitants. In France, it is 0.75%. In Canada, lower than 1%. Australia has barely 120,000 Jews in a rustic of 26 million.
Most Jews in these courageous communities help and love Israel, however they face intimidation on the streets and at their synagogues, hostility within the media, and little significant help from their governments and the police. It is easy. In a democracy, numbers rely, and Jewish supporters of Israel are outnumbered.
In the meantime, in America, the demographics are reversed – and never due to the Jewish inhabitants. There are 7.6 million Jews within the U.S. – roughly 2.3% of the full inhabitants. Statistically, they’re insignificant.
However then there are the Evangelicals: 78 million Individuals who learn the identical Bible as Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, and Cory Booker — “Christian Zionists” Carlson derides as having a “mind virus.” They imagine that standing with Israel means standing with God.
I’ve spoken at church buildings throughout the USA — from megachurches to small congregations, white, Hispanic, and African American — and I’ve seen the phenomenon firsthand.
Congregations crammed with individuals who have by no means met a Jew and by no means been to Israel, but pray for Israel with tears of their eyes. They increase cash for Israel, foyer their politicians, and train their kids that the rebirth of Jewish Israel in 1948 was a miracle foretold in Scripture.
PHOTO: Israeli and US flags in Jerusalem, the place the opening ceremony was held for the US embassy after its transfer from Tel Aviv, Might 14, 2018. (Photograph: Alexey Vitvitsky / Sputnik by way of AP)
That’s America’s actual ‘Israel foyer’: thousands and thousands of religious Christians whose religion, not politics, makes them Israel’s strongest allies.
Europe lacks this, as Christian religion has pale and cynical politics drive attitudes. With no vibrant Christian tradition, emotional or theological hyperlinks to Israel have disappeared.
Which is why the Western world has divided so starkly. On one facet: Europe, with out the Evangelical Christian voice; on the opposite: America, whose heartland nonetheless beats proudly with biblical religion.
Tucker Carlson, the self-appointed cheerleader for the woke proper’s hatred of Israel, despises his Christian co-religionists for embracing biblical future exactly as a result of he is aware of that it’s because of them that Israel nonetheless has America as a good friend.
Personally, at a time when many have turned away from Israel, I respect the thousands and thousands of Christians who stand with Israel out of religion and love. To me, this help clearly feels a part of God’s plan.
